On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:54:50PM -0600, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > > >>From: Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Slashdot pointed to this. Expert says burned CDs have an expected >>lifetime of 2 - 5 years. >> >>http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,107607,00.html >> >>Bad news for those of us planning to pass photo albums to our kids in >>30 years on CD. The suggestion to use mag tape is ... well, not very >>practical and doesn't solve much, at least for the home user. >> >>We can hope he's wrong, but hope is a poor strategy, especially for back >>up. >> >>Any thoughts? Hopefully CD-R isn't the last advance in storage >>technology, but what to do while waiting for the cavalry to arrive? And >>what was all that stuff about "blue laser"? >> > >Redundancy. CDs are cheap. Make 3 copies, keep at least one in a safety >deposit box. Every 2 years, make 3 new copies, throw out the possibly >degraded ones. If you have such a high failure rate 3 seems insufficient, >scale up.
that's a great idea. but if you have more than one cd you might just apply it to disks. eg ...at some point we should transfer our PATA archives to thoes new SATA disks... "sometimes I wonder how many old hosts I have recursivly stored in my $HOME" // George -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE>< http://galis.org/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
